Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Astrocytes integrate and drive action potential firing in inhibitory subnetworks

  • Tara Deemyad,
  • Joel Lüthi,
  • Nelson Spruston

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06338-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Specific types of inhibitory neurons exhibit prolonged, high-frequency barrages of action potentials. Here, the authors show that astrocytes might mediate such barrage firing.